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Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit 2025 dives deep into key topics for IAM around program management, agentic AI, optimizing resources and more to help you address your organization's mission-critical challenges.

2025 Conference Theme

Identity at the Core

In the face of geopolitical volatility and economic uncertainties, IAM is at the core of business operations and cybersecurity, ensuring resilience through secure interactions among people, machines and organizations. Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit provides  guidance on building scalable and efficient IAM infrastructures in today's complex environment.

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind.

Hear from Gartner VP Analyst and Conference Chair, Homan Farahmand, on what makes Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit an essential conference for leaders in the IAM field.
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Monday, December 08, 2025

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CST

Technical Insights: Workload Access Management and API Access Control Architectures
Erik Wahlstrom, VP Analyst, Gartner
Platform engineering teams need your guidance on how to add managed workload identities to all new workloads and architect modern API access control standards that provide strong identity issuance, authentication, authorization, and federation. In this session, we will chart the path for modern workload IAM with capabilities that do not rely on legacy practices and help developers get to a security-by-designed, "hello, world" as quickly as possible. ... Show More Show Less

12:30 PM - 01:15 PM CST

Ask the Expert: How to Modernize Machine IAM?
Steve Wessels, Director Analyst, Gartner
Current machine identity and access management (IAM) practices are fragmented and insufficient, leading to potential security and compliance risks. To address these challenges, IAM leaders should enhance and unify their existing approaches to better secure machine identities. Additionally, it is essential to modernize machine IAM practices in collaboration with all stakeholders, emphasizing just-in-time credentialing, proactive management of technology debt, and continuous monitoring to safeguard critical assets. ... Show More Show Less
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

03:45 PM - 04:15 PM CST

Technical Insights: Do Not Be Caught Unprepared for Shortening Certificate Lifespans
Paul Rabinovich, VP Analyst, Gartner
The recent CA/B Forum decision to reduce by 2029 the maximum lifetime of public TLS certificates to 47 days makes implementing certificate lifecycle management an urgent matter for a vast majority of organizations. In this session we will discuss this and other CLM drivers such as certificate sprawl, lack of governance, compliance needs and migration to post-quantum cryptography, and provide an overview of best practices and vendors. ... Show More Show Less

04:30 PM - 05:00 PM CST

The Future of Digital Identity
Marty Resnick, VP Analyst, Gartner
The future world that businesses will operate in cannot thrive without identity. This session discusses the plausible future where organizations work across the globe, space, the spatial and the synthetic worlds all being influenced by automation and AI, and how stakeholders will need a stronger and more innovative system of digital identity. ... Show More Show Less

04:30 PM - 05:00 PM CST

Technical Insights: Workload Identity Management - Resolve IAM Technical Debt
Erik Wahlstrom, VP Analyst, Gartner
How do I discover, monitor, and manage my workload identities and their associated accounts and credentials? In this session, we will discuss the process, the evolving toolset, how to identify your blind spots and what type of tool is fit for purpose. ... Show More Show Less

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“Comprehensive coverage over what many consider to be a niche security topic. Insightful discussion on best practices, major players and up-and-coming solution providers.”

Brian Curl
CISO, Rogers Corporation

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